Talking to the Empire Magazine for their latest Heroes Issue, Sigourney Weaver revealed to the magazine that Walter Hill sent her a 50 page treatment for an Alien 5! Unfortunately she doesn’t mention any details, but Weaver states that she received it nearly 18 months back, in the aftermath of the death of Blomkamp’s Alien 5.
Speaking to Empire in the new Heroes Issue – on sale now – Weaver revealed that she received a 50-page treatment from Alien franchise producer Walter Hill around a year and a half ago for a different take on a fifth Ripley film, which came about in the aftermath of Blomkamp’s project falling through – though she’s ultimately not sure the future of Alien rests in the revival of that legendary character. “I don’t know,” she said. “Ridley has gone in a different direction. Maybe Ripley has done her bit. She deserves a rest.”
Walter Hill and David Giler at the premiere of Alien 3.
Though once a huge part of the Alien franchise, Walter Hill has been absent from the series since Alien 3. Hill co-wrote multiple drafts of both the original Alien and Alien 3 along with his Brandywine partner David Giler.
This issue of Empire is now on shelves, but we don’t know yet if the actual article goes into more detail about this treatment.
Update: Here’s the full two page article in PDF format.
Empire Magazine (July 2020)
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From what I know, Scott did not nix Hill's new script. From what I know he had nothing to do with it. Keep in mind that the producers' relationship with Fox went rocky decades ago, over the issue of profits made on ALIEN.
Faceless characters there just to get killed off, unlikeable characters that we're eager to see killed off, the typical cliche of all horror cliches where the hero of the series is in more personal danger. Alien 3 is full of cliches. For example, why do we have 25 convicts? Because it will give us a higher body count.
Worked well for the most successful film in the franchise. Ripley went to sleep in two out of four movies. The two really successful and artistically strongest films in the franchise.
Well, wiki indicates this site as an official.
Sounds like some kind of a teaser.
Good.
Not good.
Sounds like studio intrigue. RS woke up again when they started talking about a new film?
This is more than enough.if this is not a joke from you...
From what I know it's roughly the fifty pages mentioned by Weaver and HIll.
I did think that was a little odd.
The Brandywine website the pdf was hosted by looks pretty empty right now: https://brandywineprod.com/
Also their contact e-mail address, nostromo-at-brandywineprod.com seems a little fanboyish don't you think?
This might well happen. A proper Alien 5 would be exciting.
I don't even care about Ripley. If she will be in the film - good. If not, adjust the script, but still make a film!
More like - "In Hollywood no one can hear you dream".
https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1100xauto/public/alienvscriptphoto5.jpg
I would like to see more.
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I love Aliens, I really do. But, God, watching it's ending now is like forceably eating sugar spoon by spoon.
"MOMMY", "Can we dream now ?"
f**k off Newt
Well... I cant argue with that.
Oh c'mon! Who is arguing? Not me. But dark =/= dead end. Alien/Aliens also dark, just without, well, dead end (if "happy end" it's a trigger for you).
CDL
I find it funny that people go crazy when they see a happy end in their dark
fantasiesfranchises.https://brandywineprod.com/AlienVCoverPage.pdf
Exactly, the ending of Aliens was so positive it practically had a Disney feel to it. It was Alien 3 that took the series into the abysmal darkness that polarized movie goers.
Good summary mate and for fun you could also add the prequels.
Prometheus: 2 survivors out of 17 (Only 1 survivor really if you take into account that Shaw dies before Covenant starts)
Covenant: Probably zero survivors out of a crew of 15 + 2000 colonists?
ALIEN is really a dark franchise and that is one of the many reasons it is so great!
We must be talking about different movies mate.
Aliens: 3 survivors out of 172 people (158 colonist + 12 marines + Ripley + Burke) + Bishop
Happy endings? Victories? Really?
Alien³ had better survival rate if you count crew of the USCSS Patna.
Nothing like this! Where did you get this? Alien - happy end. Aliens - happy end. Alien 3 - bad end. I think the definition of "was true to the feel of the series" is infinitely far from reality. And it is an attempt to justify the mess created in Alien 3. Plus, trying to give some ghostly weight to the A3. Plus, distortion of facts about the series.
Alien/Aliens - meeting with evil, death and destruction, but victory and life at the end.
Alien 3 - meeting with evil, death and destruction at the end. This film is not part of a series - spiritually.
What cliches are you talking about? Would you have liked to see Ripley ride into the sunset with her new family? I believe Ripley's arc finishing the way it did in Alien 3 was true to the feel of the series.
That is definitely the case.
Like others have suggested, I think Sigourney is loyal to Blomkamp's vision and was being diplomatic here. Would love to know what Hill came up with.
I love Sigourney, she's my favourite actress (mainly because of non-alien roles in Snow Cake, Copycat, Galaxy Quest, Death and the Maiden, A Map of the World, The Girl in the Park, Imaginary Heroes...), she's always very passionate about new projects, so no surprise she endorsed Blomkamp's idea but she also co-produced the 3rd and 4th movie and she must take the responsibility for where the story went.
Alien trilogy and Ripley's story ended perfectly with Alien³. You can still do some kind of alternative version of Resurrection I guess if you need to bring another version of Ripley back but why would you do it when Ripley 8' story can be concluded without stupidly destroying previous chapters.
I say either do it right and respect previous movies or don't do it at all - Ripley died on Fury 161 and Ripley 8 lives somewhere in France - this story ends here.
Don't reboot. That would be so lame. Just write a good story with new original characters. You have entire galaxy to explore in Alien universe, just use a bit of creative imagination.
BTW there is a kind of sequel to Alien series with Ripley and played by Sigourney (OK this isn't quite serious but she's Ripley here, believe or not): https://youtu.be/s4X8pwE2tok
Horror =/= dead end. Characters don't have to die or go crazy in the finale.
Alien - this is the perfect horror, which masterfully beat and change cliches. Alien 3 is another horror that USES cliches without imagination. If Ripley died at the end of Alien (as Ridley wished), we would not be here.
Not sure if trolling or not but ALIEN is a horror franchise.
It amazes me that so many people (mainly on youtube) desperately want Blomkamp to write and direct Alien 5, the guy has not done anything noteworthy/successful since District 9 and his last feature film was in 2015.
And this is why people become movie producers, folks. Residuals.
I'd take it.
Pretty sure Hill was also happy to be done with Alien after Alien 3 too.
I don't know, Valaquen spoke about it a few years back and it sounded like Giler and Hill were joking about it at the party because it was such an utterly awful idea. I think Hill said something along the lines that Ripley's story was now finally over, no bringing her back, when Giler quipped that she can always be brought back via cloning, which was kind of a cheap sci-fi trope/cliché back then.
Of course the joke was on them since they both got producers credits on Alien: Resurrection even though they had nothing to do with that film and even opposed it's making.
Lmao, Ridley hasn't made any such self-assertions, sure he has said the original film was his "baby" but indeed to make a baby requires at least two parties, etc. Also, each film gets new writers and new thespians... The hell are you on about?